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Definitely. I was expecting for that to happen in this chapter though, or at least for us to get a determined Usopp face.

After all, especially with Leo calling the Toy Soldier "Captain," the parallel of putting absolute faith in one's captain should be obvious! This isn't the kind of thing a warrior of the sea, or anyone that would call himself a man, can back away from!

We're most likely going to find out once everything gets reverted back. However, I'm guessing that everything does age, and this goes to the toys as well.

Since soldier lost his leg, that leg is gone forever since he never got it back and fixed it. Once everything comes back, he has no leg, and the leg part wherever it is has reverted as well, but not attached to him...

I made a thread about that recently. Although, you have to remember that he could have just been a broken toy that was made. There were 100s of broken toys in the trash pit. Maybe he was just made broken.

Honestly, I think something like that is probably what will end up happening.

Bartolomeo's stated dream is to become a disciple of Luffy's. But the odds of him actually joining the crew are pretty low. None of the signs we've seen from previous crew members before joining are there - no tragic backstory, no near-perfect skill in a particular area of expertise, nothing. Even the dream doesn't fit. Every current Strawhat dream will be fulfilled sometime between Raftel and the series end, but Bartolomeo's would be fulfilled the moment he joined the crew.

So what's the next best thing to becoming Luffy's disciple? Why, becoming a disciple of Luffy's oldest living friend and contemporary, of course. He's already started down this path; despite knowing full well that "Lucy" is now Sabo, he still reacts with fanboyish admiration when Sabo beasts on Burgess. Notably, he goes so far as to call Sabo "sempai" - which is what he was calling Luffy only a few chapters before.

By the end of this arc, Bartolomeo will have joined the Revolutionaries under Sabo.

I wonder if there's an actual reason behind them saying that Soldier-san is the only one who can defeat Doffy.

Are they just saying that because he's the strongest of them (besides the Straw Hats, of course) and they're pinning their hopes in him or is there some secret that only Soldier-san knows in order to defeat Doffy?

To them soldier-san is a living legend. He is the only champion to ever with 3000 matches (something that as far as we know never been copied). He is also the only toy to not be contracted. They don't know a whole lot about the rest of the world so they really don't know how he is in comparison but given what they know he is a legend.

Wait is her dad kyros? Who is kyros? Did i miss something?
EDIT: Just saw this: "Good ole manga panda, forgets the last page of the chapter but still reminds us about the amazing one piece memes."
fucking mangapanda

Dude are you kidding me? I only read through the chapter in order to get to the amazing one piece meme page. Sucks having to wade through all the Oda filth in order to finally get to the meme page. I think mangapanda should really just make all the pages One Piece memes.

EDIT: Just went to memecenter and checked out the One Piece memes. Ohgodwhy

Great chapter! This slower pacing is really helping me care for Rebecca and the Toy Soldier. Can't wait for Trebol and Diamante to get beaten now. It's weird though how much more of a presence (and purpose) they have than Pica...

Yeah, it's just that Diamante and Trebol have been slowly built up since the beginning of the arc and are integral to Doflamingo's operation. Does Pica just sit around the palace all day until someone breaks in?

Yea I felt like when she was talking about curos early in the chapter. Wait Mr. Soldier is.. and then he really underlines it. Heres to hoping that we'll get to see atleast some of the noise that Lao G was talking about firsthand next week.

On their way to Zou, and hopefully they'll know better than to fight Big Mom's pirates. Sanji, Nami, Brook and Chopper (with Momo and Caesar as deadweight) isn't the best combination to take on a Yonko's whole crew.

Yesss, at last it is confirmed the toy soldier is who we thought he was.
All this build-up is nice, shit is about to go down, Usopp will show us some new things.
Wonder what that "rumble" was that Lao G. mentioned, maybe Zoro/Luffy wombo combo?...we'll see, it's getting intense that's for sure :')

Seriously, what was he doing the whole time during those 2 years? he boasted a bit about being able to keep up with everyone else now, and then as soon as they saw a dragon he wussed out again and has done so ever since

How did Leo know that TSOL was Kyros? I thought all memories of Kyros (apart from the statue) should have been wiped out? Also why was he called Captain - hinting at a dwarf crew led by Kyros, possibly?

I don't really know exactly how the fight will pan out but I get a strong feeling that Usopp and Robin are going to work together and wisely take advantage of Trebol's half-hazardness. Trebol doesn't seem to show any restraint, if they can piss him off enough maybe they can just get him to accidently knock out Sugar (and maybe even himself) without having to do much fighting at all.

Wait, why would the son in law of the king from a country fight in the coloseum? He got turned in a toy when Dolfa took over right? So he fought in the coloseum before Dolfa took over? That doesn't make sense right?

I took it more that Kryos is the only one that can save the country, not that he is the only one capable of fighting Doffy. We know that Luffy can fight and beat Doffy but would that alone restore the Riku kingdom? No it wouldn't. A face from the past that everyone forgot reappearing and telling everyone the truth of the last ten years can.

Oda's spelling is actually a bit annoying. In chapter 704, we can see on the statue it says "Kyros". When I see that, I pronounce that 'kai-rosu'. But I looked at the raws for this chapter, and the spelling used has it pronounced "kyu-rosu".

Greek pronounces it as "kee-ros", and straight English as "kai-rus" (according to google translate)

It's not like Oda made up that spelling. Like you said, Kyros is from the Greek Κύρος. The name Cyrus originated from the Persian name Kourosh. キュロス is just how the Japanese rendered that name into their language. It can't sound exactly like the way its pronounced in its original language. Even Cyrus is a corruption of that name. Curos is the one that's made up here.

Oh yea, one thing I am REALLY disappointed about is that Usopp is STILL acting like a wuss. He needs to become the braveman of the sea already. He's been scared shitless the whole time and this is only against a Schichibukai's crew. Wait til they go against Kaido and Big Mom. We can't have the same Usopp as the guy in the beginning of the anime. There's no character development.

Just gonna throw this out there: Did Trebol/Trevor just reveal his ultimate weakness? I honestly can't see the battle going like this, but technically since his "snot" is highly combustible, if Usopp say fires a Firebird star at him boom trebol is dead.
Either he's logia and his body is made of snot so he will completely combust and die, or he's a paramecia and he'll lose an arm or something (and furthermore not be able to use his power for fear of it being used against him).